MHA Arc 4 Chapter 3
Chapter: Uraraka's Birthday
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Izuku POV:
I feel like shit
I think as I force myself to open my eyes, my body feels like All Might has been punching me over and over and then dropped a truck on top of me. I feel weak, I feel quirkless again. But I do still feel the warmth from One for All in my stomach still burning brightly.
It must be from what happened yesterday with Eri, and today of all days! Why did it have to be today!
I think as I push myself up to look out the window at snow slowly falling and reminding me of yesterday.
Yesterday, outside dorms,
"All right Eri! Let's have fun clearing all this snow!" I yell super excited about spending a little time with the bundle of joy known as Eri. I watch her run out from the dorms, dressed in a full red snow outfit, with little gloves and a little beanie to match.
"Yeah! Deku Deku!" she yells, causing my heart to start skipping beats and to somehow infect me with the biggest smile I can muster.
"Alright when we have cleared the snow, we can make snow angels and snowmen," I say trying to excite her even more,
"Yes! I will help!" she yells her excitement starting to bubble over, I can visibly see it, a small red aura around her.
"Eri what are you?" I start but before I can finish, I am washed away by a massive tidal wave of water, as I feel the icy water hit my body, I feel something in me weaken instantly. The water doesn't wait, and it flows me right into the other side of the snow of the yard planting me headfirst into a stone wall.
Impressive, but so cold, I feel like I am living in the north pole! Naked!
I think as I push myself out of the snow and start shivering.
Present-day.
"I must have gotten a chill," I say as I push myself up to see the clock, it says five in the morning which is the exact time I wanted to get up to make Uraraka's special breakfast.
Even feeling like I am sick I can make it through today, I won't ruin this day for her! I will make it perfect for her!
I think as I get used to my weak legs, I feel like I am a bunch of jellies. "I set my alarm early because I knew I had a chance of feeling like this, I can do this," I say as I pick up the small black box, I picked up yesterday from the jewellery store.
I am happy the nice lady at the store met me yesterday, I hope she likes this gift. Now I must make her breakfast in bed and make myself a pick me up smoothie and try to walk off this feeling,
As I think that I fumble my way downstairs, even dragging my feet I try to make no sound. The ground feels like ice, frozen and unforgiving, the air feels crisp and every so often when I breathe in it feels like I am inhaling small bits of ice.
But after what feels like years of stumbling, I finally make it to the kitchen. I start moving around, quickly getting prepared to make pancakes for breakfast, mochi for lunch and my own pick me up smoothie. I work for two hours moving between each of my cooking ventures.
"Alright, one large stack of pancakes, mochi is cooling and my green pick me up," I say to myself as I pass my gaze from the golden pancakes to the snowy white mochi and finally the toxic green drink.
Alright, and my present for her is in my pocket.
I say as I feel my pocket to make sure the little box is still inside it. So, I take a big swig from my pick me up and I can taste all the "goodness", kale, cucumber, carrot, banana and apple.
This is honestly the only nice tasting thing on the dam All Might prep diet.
I think as I finish my favourite pick me up smoothie and start gathering a knife and fork for Uraraka's breakfast in bed. When I have placed them and the large stack of pancakes on a tray, I start wandering towards the girl's dorm rooms.
My movement seems fine and I don't feel like All Might has punched the crap out of me, I feel like normal. As I take the corner a wave of dizziness hits me, making me stumble back. I instantly catch myself before I could drop anything or fall over.
"Wow, need to be careful," I say as I hear something else reaching my ears,
"Yeah happy new years to you too!" I hear Uraraka say clearly on the phone to her parents.
Uraraka POV:
"It is nice hearing from you mum, I know you won't be able to call me till new years since you have a tonne of work to do and the moving, so it is nice to hear from you for my birthday. So happy new years to you too!" I say into the phone and hang up, I feel a wave of emotion roll into me originating from where my finger pressed the hang-up button. I feel sadness creep up my arm, wrapping its arms around me. but it doesn't stop, sadness starts to scratch at my eyes, causing tears to start streaming down my face.
Why am I even crying or feeling sad? I knew this was the case weeks ago, why does it still make my heart want to tear itself apart?
I ask myself as I hear a knocking at the door. I look up just as it opens, and I am greeted by my smiling mop of green hair. "Izuku!" I squeal, as I watch the sadness instantly evaporate like water on a hot day.
"Happy Birthday!" he says as he wanders in, as he does, I notice the massive pile of pancakes on the plate. "I made you breakfast in bed and mochi for lunch." He says causing my heart to swell with happiness and smashed itself back to being whole.
"You're the best!" I say sitting up and whipping away the last little specks of tears I had. "Have I ever told you how happy I am now that we are a couple?"
"No, I don't think you have," he responds teasingly as he places the tray on my lap,
"Well, If I had to put a number to it, I would say more than there are stars in the sky," I say remembering something my dad said to my mum when I was little.
"Well, that makes me extremely happy, but what would make me happier is if you eat these delicious golden pancakes," he says as he hands me a knife and fork,
"Oh I think I am going," I start before shoving a fork full of pancakes into my mouth, causing my green-haired boyfriend to roll his eyes at me, "really like them," I say probably no audible since my mouth is full of Izuku's amazing cooking. As consume at an inhumanly rate, pretty much sucking the pancakes in as if I was some kind of vacuum cleaner.
"So, I can't wait for the others and for you to go downstairs, and it's kind of personal. I really hope you like it," Izuku stutters as I stop inhaling to look at him. I watch him pull out a small black box and my heart starts thumping, at an alarming rate.
Please don't be asking me to marry him because I would say yes in less than a heartbeat. And we are too young and we haven't even spoken about the future.
I think as he hands me the small box, "What is it?" I ask now confused about what is in it, even though I am sure it's a ring of some kind.
"Open it, it's your birthday present," he says as I slowly move my hand towards the box. Then I open it.
I am greeted by the sight of a silver ring with a small green gem in it, but then I notice something else writing. "I will always be with you," is written around the inside and the outside of the ring. As I finish, I feel my eyes go wide, and dams in my eyes start to break, I feel tears start streaming down my face and my heart starts beating wildly.
I just lunge for Izuku, wrapping my arms around his neck and burying my head into my shoulder, "I am so happy," I say into his shoulder, before burying myself even further in. Before he starts stroking my head, and it feels as if he is sending in little construction workers to start patching the whole in the dams in my eyes.
"I am so glad you're happy, that ring is a promise ring and that writing round the ring is my promise to you, I will always be with you," he says causing my heart to skip a beat, after beat.
"I love you," I mumble so only his chest can hear me.
Around midday:
After hours of just cuddling and admiring the ring, Izuku convinced me to come downstairs for lunch.
But all I wanted to do was cuddle him in bed and forget about the rest of the world right now, but I can't refuse when you use logic on me. Dam you Izuku!
I think as I notice Izuku grip the side of the lounge suddenly.
"Izuku you ok?" I ask, extremely concerned for him,
"It's ok, I am ok. Just a quick dizzy spell I am fine now," he says shooting me a small bright smile which wipes away all my fears and worries.
"Yeah I get you, sometimes I feel like that, especially after a long workout," I say as I sit on the lounge just as I hear two pairs of footsteps. I turn my head towards the origin of the footsteps to see Momo and Todoroki. Then I see what's in front of her, an elegant pink dress, causing my heart to stop.
"Happy Birthday," they say in unison, strutting over to the lounge and sitting down either side of me.
"Thanks, guys, what's with the expensive dress?" I ask, curiously looking at the pink dress with silver outlines, it looks way more expensive than anything she has seen before.
"Well seeing that you wouldn't let me but it for you when we went shopping for the first-year graduation ball, I bought it for you as a birthday present. Well I didn't," she says sighing placing her finger to her cheek, "Daddy when I told him, bought the entire brand, then got some French guys to redo the entire dress and mine. Then said something about a profit of a trillion dollars and then your dress is worth around half a million, since Guy Bisset signed the inside and redid the lining, I think daddy said he was the best designer in the world," she says calmly as if what she said wasn't insane, and only would happen to the top 1%.
"I can't accept this it is more expensive than me! And everything I have ever owned!" I let out, losing my voice halfway through,
"Oh no I insist you must have it; it is your birthday present and you can't reject them!" she says winking and placing a small evil smirk on her face.
"Thank you," I say smiling at her,
"Well I got you some earrings, but Momo picked them to go with your dress," he says as he passes me a small box, I open it to reveal two small pink earrings, silver in all but the small gems in them.
"They are beautiful Todoroki," I say, in awe at how beautiful they are,
"Call me Shoto, I wish for us to become closer since you and I are extremely close to Izuku, I feel like this can be the start of a real friendship," he says keeping his face completely neutral.
"Thank you Shoto, it is really kind of you," I say as I look up to see my green-haired boyfriend in the kitchen preparing lunch,
"Go take your presents up I will help Midoryia finish lunch and then after that, we can prepare for your small birthday party tonight," Momo says as she gets up to head towards the kitchen.
Later that afternoon:
I can't believe he has been in the kitchen all day since lunch, and he keeps looking worse. I am really worried, but he just insists he is fine.
I think just as the doorbell rings, so I wander over passing the cooking team of Izuku, Momo and Shoto. As I reach the door, I see two figures outline behind the glass of the door. I open the door to be greeted by Mrs Midoryia and Ms Joke. Both with a massive smile, I am too busy to looking at them to notice the ball of Eri smash into my legs forcing me to lose balance and fall very ungracefully onto my butt.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MS FLOATY!" Eri yells, all the while still cuddling my legs squeezing the life out of them.
"Thank you Eri, I am so happy you could come, I hope you enjoy the dinner tonight," I say as Ms Joke pries Eri off my leg.
"Happy birthday," Ms Joke says carry Eri over towards the lounge room, I finally stand up before someone else has started to crush every single bone in my body. As I turn my head, I see a dark set of green hair that matches my boyfriend's hair.
"Hello Mrs Midoryia," I squeeze out, my airways being crushed by the bone-crushing hug.
"Oh, none of that thank you, call me Inko," she ways slightly releasing her grip,
"Well thank you Inko," I say as I feel my cheeks start to explode with heat,
"This is for you," she says handing over a soft present. I stare at the pink wrapping paper trying to figure out what is inside. Giving up I tear open the paper to be greeted by pink wool, I recognise it instantly, my heartbeat a million miles per hour. I pull it out and it takes form into a sweater,
She made another one. For me,
I think just as I turn it round to see in green writing that matches my boyfriend and his mother's hair,
"URAVITY"
I feel my heart constrict and I feel a small tear in one of my eyes. "Thank you Inko! This is gorgeous! Did you make it?" I ask,
"Yes, I did, I am so happy you like it, it took me a while after I found out my son had a girlfriend, I was going to give it to you for Christmas but Izuku said something to me about your birthday and I thought I would give it to you then," she says happily, then I notice some sadness hug her from behind and get caught in the back of her eye, "Please look after him, I didn't believe in him when he was little, but I always cared. I just want him to be happy, and you make him happy since he met you, he hasn't gone a day or a message without mentioning you even once. Just believe in him, like I didn't, I always wanted him to feel special and for being him,"
My heart is pounding, and I felt my eyes go wide when she started speaking of my boyfriend, "I will always believe in him, he is special to me for being Izuku, not Deku or a hero. He may be my hero, but he is my Izuku as well," I say as I hold the sweater closer to my chest.
"Thank you," Inko replies, then wanders past me, I turn around to follow and glance at my boyfriend who looks a little paler than usual. But I can't look long because I hear someone calling my name,
"Uraraka, Eri has a present she picked herself," Ms Joke says, wandering over to me with Eri holding a bag Mochi with a pink bow on it. Causing me to smile at the cute little bundle of joy.
I bend to meet Eri and give her a big smile, I watch her cheeks grow red and she holds out of course an apple flavoured Mochi.
"Thank you Eri, I am so happy you got me these, maybe tomorrow we can share them," I say taking the mochi and kissing her forehead.
"Wow, you already have those motherly features," I hear Ms Joke say, her tone clearly a teasing one. I feel my cheeks grow red and my heart thumping again, "I am enjoying the practice with Eri myself, and I am sure Izuku would make a good father," she continues her tone not changing, but with every word, I feel my heartbeat faster and my cheeks grow hotter.
"I don't know that feels like a distant future, we have only been dating a few months and I don't think either of us really wants to think about that stuff too much right now," I stutter out, as my checks continue to burn at temperatures close to the sun.
"Dinner time," I hear Momo call, which like a cold snap erases the heat around my check. I turn around to watch Izuku, I watch him stumble, once and then again. His face goes white as a ghost and I watch him fall in slow motion. I watch as he face plants into the ground. My heart stops for what feels like hours as I stare, but with the smashing sound, the world returns to life.
"Izuku!" I yell, racing towards him as fast as I can, as I reach him, I bend down and scoop him into my arms. Cradling like I seem to do on a regular basis, "Izuku are you ok?" I ask, as I start to look at him more thoroughly, his skin is as white as a ghost, his eyes look like glass.
Keeping my eyes on him the entire time I would see a hand be placed on his forehead, "he has a fever for sure," I hear Inko say as the hand retracts from his forehead,
"How long have you felt unwell?" I ask my boyfriend, as I feel a small tear fall from my eye,
"Since this morning, I didn't want to ruin your special day. I am sorry," he says, clearly upset and distorts which makes my heart squeeze and the sadness starts to squirm its way in.
"You're a silly boy," I hear his mother say,
"You should have said something,"
"I didn't want to make you worry," he replies as tears start to fall from my face,
"You shouldn't cry on your birthday," he says wiping away the tears from my eyes,
"It's hard not to when your boyfriend is sick," I say as I hold him a little closer, then they just stop, as if a switch has gone off on its own. I bend down and place my lips on his forehead, it feels hot and sweaty. "Get well for me Izuku,"
[Alright and that's the chapter! Thanks for reading and please leave me a bunch of reviews, I intend to get this story done before the end of the year, (Not the Arc the entire story) So hopefully it will be done around my birthday on the 16th of December or just before Christmas! I will be posting the first chapter of the sequel in January! I would say in the second week don't hold me to that, but it will be in January. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter! Please if you haven't read my NaruTen story if you like Naruto. Remember to GO BEYOND PLUS ULTRA!]